Shine spotlight on Olympians

There’s one year to go before the next Winter Olympics and we see the usual media ramping up of winter sports coverage. By next fall, we’ll be urged to “get behind” our athletes. Then it will be back to three more years of hockey, football and basketball.

You almost got it right on Sunday with below the fold coverage of medals and a full page, albeit the back page, with details of the successes of our winter sports athletes. But why do you always default to yet another Leafs’ loss as the lead story?

Leaf fans know that is not news. Perhaps if coverage of sports was more evenhanded, Canadians would know more about our excellence in other sports.